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Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released
From: |
Xue Fuqiao |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released |
Date: |
Tue, 14 May 2013 07:12:07 +0800 |
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.2, the second alpha
> release, representing 580 commits by 5 people over 4 months.
Great news, *thanks* to everyone involved!
> • About
>
> GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of
> the GNU system.
>
> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
> transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
> management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses
> mechanisms from the Nix package management tool, with a Guile Scheme
> programming interface.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
>
>
> • Download
>
> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.2.tar.gz
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.2.tar.gz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
> http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
>
> 4bdbbd736d0bbcb6cd7e28220c4ea1fe guix-0.2.tar.gz
> 051a65d1d7aa9a0ea69fe97d6d9a8b93fe09cca0 guix-0.2.tar.gz
>
> [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
>
> gpg --verify guix-0.2.tar.gz.sig
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
>
> gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys EA52ECF4
>
> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
> Autoconf 2.69
> Automake 1.13.1
> Makeinfo 5.1
>
>
> • Changes since version 0.1 (excerpt from the NEWS file)
>
> ** Package management
>
> *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
>
> Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
> on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial
> program
> setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
>
> *** New “guix package --upgrade” option
>
> As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
> installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
> See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
>
> *** New “guix package --search” option
>
> Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and
> returns
> the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in
> the
> manual, for details.
>
> *** New “guix pull” command
>
> The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
> modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
>
> *** New binary substituter
>
> The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
> downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
> available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
> distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from
> there.
>
> See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list
> of
> available binary packages.
>
> *** New “guix refresh” command
>
> The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
> distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
>
> *** New “guix hash” command
>
> Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
> details.
>
> *** Nix daemon code updated
>
> The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been
> updated
> to current Nix ‘master’.
>
> ** Programming interfaces
>
> *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
>
> It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
>
> *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
>
> Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment
> variables
> that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
> package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
> ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
> These environment variables are automatically set when building a package
> that
> uses one of these.
>
> *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
>
> The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
> (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
> tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
>
> *** New build systems
>
> The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’
> have
> been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
> CMake packages.
>
> *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
>
> The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
> initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
> evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
> mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
>
> (expression->initrd
> '(begin
> (mkdir "/proc")
> (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
> ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
>
> More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
>
> Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
> (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
> ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression
> in
> a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
>
> ** GNU distribution
>
> Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
> highlights.
>
> *** Major updates
>
> GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
> Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
>
> *** Noteworthy new packages
>
> TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
> CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.
>
>
> Please report bugs to address@hidden
>
> Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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